Improvement in hoop skirts



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IMPROVEMNT IN HOOP SKIRTS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: i v

Be it known that I, T. B. DE FOREST, of Birmingham, in the county of New Haven, and State of 'Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Hoop Skirts; and I do .hereby declare the following, when teken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a portion of a tape with hoops-inserted; and in Figure 2 a horizontal section on line a a'.

This inventionV relates to an improvement in the manner ofsecuring hoops to the tapes of hoop skirts, and consists in indenting or enlarging the hoop at or near the ends of the pocket,- so that the. said indentation or enlargement prevents any lateral movement ofthe tape ou the hoop.

To enable others to construct and use my improvement, I will proceed to describe the same, as' illustrated in the accompanying drawings, v

A. is the tape, B the pocket, denoted in red, lig. 2, and C the hoop, denoted in black, fig. 2. The tape, with its pockets, is formed inl the usual manner, save ,that I make the pockets only suiliciently largefor the hoop to be passed therethrough, and I prefer to make the pockets a. little shorter than the width of the tape. This last is not essential. Through the pockets the hoop is passed in the usual manner, and when in proper position I indent the wire, as seen at D, iig. 2, preferring to make such indentation at both ends ofthe pocket, This indentation enlarges as it were the wire, and prevents its lateral movement in the pocket, and therefore secures the hoop in the tape without theaid of clasps, spangles, stitches, or anything of like nature.

I prefer, as I before stated, to make this enlargement by indentation, yet it may be done otherwise, the object of my invention being accomplished by any enlargement of or upon the hoop.' If the pockets arernade double, that is, one pocket upon eachedge of the tape, so as to leave a space in the middle, a single enlargement ef the hoop in such space would answer every purpose.

Having therefore thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v p Y Securing the hoop and tape by one or more indentations or enlargements of the hoop, substantially as herein set forth.

THOS. B.'. DE FOREST.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EAR'LE, JOHN H. SHUMWAY. 

